Various rankings for Men's Division I College Hockey, through 2004-02-22. Compiled by Wayne T. Smith School KRACH RHEAL HEAL RPI --------------------------------------------------- 1 Boston College 1 2 1 2 2 North Dakota 2 1 2 1 3 Minnesota-Duluth 3 4 5 5 4 Maine 4 7 3 3 5 Minnesota 5 6 7 6 6 Michigan 6 3 4 4 7 Wisconsin 7 5 6 7 8 St. Cloud State 8 9 10 9 9 Denver 9 13 17 13 10 Colorado College 10 16 24 16 11 Ohio State 11 10 11 8 12 New Hampshire 12 14 9 11 13 Michigan State 13 11 15 15 14 Miami 14 8 12 12 15 Massachusetts 15 22 13 10 16 Notre Dame 16 12 14 17 17 Providence 17 26 26 14 18 Colgate 18 17 8 18 19 Cornell 19 21 19 19 20 Northern Michigan 20 20 28 31 21 Western Michigan 21 15 22 22 22 Alaska-Anchorage 22 27 40 34 23 Dartmouth 23 24 18 20 24 Alaska-Fairbanks 24 18 27 26 25 Brown 25 23 20 24 26 Boston University 26 30 32 21 27 Ferris State 27 19 25 28 28 Rensselaer 28 25 21 23 29 Michigan Tech 29 35 49 37 30 Niagara 30 33 23 27 31 Harvard 31 29 30 32 32 Bowling Green 32 28 41 39 33 Bemidji State 33 41 31 35 34 Northeastern 34 36 37 30 35 Minnesota State 35 43 51 42 36 Merrimack 36 39 43 29 37 Mass.-Lowell 37 38 44 33 38 Union 38 32 33 38 39 Yale 39 31 34 40 40 Clarkson 40 40 35 43 41 St. Lawrence 41 34 39 44 42 Lake Superior 42 37 47 45 43 Holy Cross 43 47 16 25 44 Nebraska-Omaha 44 42 52 46 45 Alabama-Huntsville 45 45 36 36 46 Vermont 46 46 50 49 47 Mercyhurst 47 44 29 41 48 Princeton 48 48 57 52 49 Quinnipiac 49 50 38 47 50 Connecticut 50 51 45 48 51 Air Force 51 52 48 51 52 Sacred Heart 52 54 42 50 53 Findlay 53 49 54 54 54 Canisius 54 55 46 53 55 Wayne State 55 53 56 56 56 Army 56 56 55 55 57 Bentley 57 57 53 57 58 American Int'l 58 58 58 58 (*) Special note for this week: The above results IGNORE 5 Mass.-Lowell forfeit games, as announced by the school and reported by USCHO.COM and other sources. There seems to be some question as to whether the forfeits will be treated as wins by the opposition or ignored for the purposes of ranking for the NCAA tournament. The NCAA bylaws seem to say the former, yet some state recent precedents suggest the latter. As the latter seems most fair to this reporter, HEAL and other rankings from this site use the latter: the 5 games below are ignored. Fyi, the forfeits are all Mass.-Lowell games from 2003-12-27 through 2004-01-24, including five games won on the ice by Mass.-Lowell: 12/28/03 Union 1 vs Mass.-Lowell 0 nc 01/03/04 Massachusetts 1 at Mass.-Lowell 0 he 01/04/04 Mass.-Lowell 0 at Massachusetts 1 he 01/10/04 Mass.-Lowell 0 at Michigan State 1 nc 01/16/04 Mass.-Lowell 0 at Merrimack 1 he PWR and CHODR are omitted from these rankings, since they are available only using the original UML game scores. The above RPI rankings are unofficial. Also, see special note above. For individual rankings and season composites, please visit http://Maine.edu/HEAL/ Game scores for these rankings have been provided by US College Hockey Online, sometimes supplemented by other sources. USCHO's composite of all Division I men's ice hockey games is available at http://uscho.com/ in the section marked Men's Division I schedules. In addition, USCHO has extensive information about KRACH, its underlying methods and history, as well as the methods used by the NCAA. This ranking report is available for republication without restriction. It may be reformatted or used in part without restriction. Reference to the HEAL web site or the author (Wayne T. Smith; [log in to unmask]) is appreciated.